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Women research ID management
Professor Liesbet van Zoonen of Loughborough University and a team of women colleagues from Dundee, Essex and Northumbria universities have received a £1.36m grant to examine taboos and desires around future technologies of ‘identity management’.
Visualising slow bio processes
Pepric, a spin-off from Belgium research organisation imec, has successfully closed a €1.4m capital round. Pepric develops scanner systems for direct visualisation of magnetic labels and commercialises equipment for quantitative molecular detection and imaging to monitor biological processes evolving slowly over time.
Whisky biofuel as water loses to wind
THE UK government's review of feed in tariff (FIT) energy payments is estimated to have stalled £100m of hydropower investment in Scotland, while a newcomer Celtic Renewable is to use whisky by-products for the production of biofuels.
RSPB: fisheries and peatland
The RSPB Scotland has warned that a new strategy for Scotland's inshore fisheries set out in the two year old National Marine Plan will not help fishing communities, unless it does more to protect our seas and is brought into effect and RSPB is also urging the Scottish Government to honour its manifesto pledge to restore Scotland’s peatlands.
Dundee is Tissue Bank founder
The University of Dundee/NHS Tayside is one of four collaborating centre sites where breast cancer tissue samples can be donated, along with blood samples and information about the donor’s breast cancer in a revolutionary new central bank.
Rain forest and flight wing truths
LMU biologist, Professor Susanne Renner teamed with Professor Robert E. Ricklefs at University of Missouri in St. Louis used data to dispose of the neural theory for rainforests. At Cambridge University Professor Holger Babinsky creates a 1-minute video to show it is lower air pressure above that raises a wing, not the common but wrong explanation of wing curvature creating wing lift.
Of robots, earth from space and bullfrogs
Gaberlunzie has always had an enormous fondness for robots from the earliest Ridiculous ElectronicDevice which he was warned never to stand near unless he had personally programmed.
NISIC wipes out NBII
The USA National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is being terminated A new database, the National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC), has been added. If you wish to receive NISIC Alerts access your Alerts account and add it to your selected Alerts source
Genetics: 24% intelligence impact
Scientists have estimated for the first time the extent to which genes determine changes in intelligence across the human life course and find that genetic factors may account for about 24% of changes in intelligence between childhood and old age.
Three year memory medicine project
Memory problems, the main symptom of Alzheimer's Disease, also occur in many other neuropsychiatric disorders, as in schizophrenia or depression yet no satisfactory treatment options for memory impairment are available.
US work on bees: UK delayed by theft
US scientists may have identified one of the factors that cause bee deaths around US agricultural fields, as analyses of bees found dead in and around hives from several apiaries over two years in Indiana showed the presence of neo-nicotinoid insecticides, commonly used to coat corn and soybean seeds before planting.
Pervasive TPVM coming
Canada's interactive entertainment strengths, with a host of other applications, take a step forward with a new technology Temporal PsychoVisual Modulation (TPVM) developed by Professor Xiaolin Wu and Guangtao Zhai at Mc Master University, where a single 3D display screen can show multiple image streams, which the viewers can choose, using a controller and LCD glasses.
Antimicrobial reassessment needed
The understanding and control antimicrobial resistance urgently needs policymakers to reassess priorities urge University of Glasgow scientists.
Shetland fish farm cages adrift
Shetland coast guard is calling for help as 12 100 foot diameter salmon farm cages, belonging to Lakeland Unst Ltd fish farms have broken loose and are being carried towards Norway. These represent both a shipping and environmental hazard with the scale of break out carrying vast risks to wild salmon stocks in their mating with farmed fish.
Can 2012 undersea Scotland beat 2011 rarities?
A rare species of fish described as “faceless and brainless” was among the unusual finds made by marine scientists off Britain’s coast during 2011, according to a recent Scottish government report. Amphioxuus is a prehistoric species, reaching two inches length and with no fins, recorded off Orkney.
Deep mediterranean KM3Net window
This year, Aberdeen, Strathclyde and Glasgow Universities scientists have played a part in the KM3Net consortium whose project is based on decades-long research projects known as ANTARES, NEMO and NESTOR that exist to monitor neutrinos.
Scrutinising single spinal nerve cells
Ultramicroscopy developed by Hans Ulrich Dodt (below left) from the Technical University of Vienna has now been taken up by Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology in Martinsried to develop a new method where single nerve cells can be both examined in intact tissue and portrayed in all three dimensions.
21st century Body symposium
Exciting life science development and its biotechnology application in help provide pioneering cures and therapies for degenerative and inherited diseases. Genomics and genetic based therapies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology, ICT implants, prosthetics, nano-medicine, care of the agein, the way in which we perceive our selves and those around us is being recast. This interdisciplinary symposium is convened in to consolidate existing scholarship on perspectives on the human body and identity in the face of new advances in emerging technologies.
Europe: Christmas and tree distribution
The European Forest Institute (EFI) in cooperation with Alterra/Wageningen University and Research Centre has released a set of 1x1 km tree species maps showing the distribution of 20 tree species over Europe.
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